US EditionIsraeli Troops Fire Tear Gas at Schoolchildren in West Bank
AFP footage showed children fleeing as troops dispersed a sit-in over a blocked school entrance, with classes resuming after more than 40 days.
- On Monday, Israeli forces fired tear gas at Palestinian schoolchildren staging a sit-in in Umm Al-Khair after settlers blocked access to their school with a barbed wire fence.
- Lessons were suspended following the Middle East war outbreak on Feb 28, forcing a 40-day school closure before schoolchildren attempted to return on Monday.
- Eleven-Year-Old Rashid Hathaleen said, 'Last night we were excited for school today,' while 12-year-old Sarah Hathaleen told AFP, 'They threw a grenade at us.'
- Israel's military confirmed it dispersed an 'unusual gathering' in Umm Al-Khair, stating, 'The gathering was dispersed and no injuries were reported,' without specifying whether tear gas was used.
- Masafer Yatta remains a hotspot for settler violence, with more than 500,000 Israelis living in West Bank settlements among some three million Palestinians in the region.
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Israeli forces fired tear gas at Palestinian schoolchildren in a village near Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank who had decided to hold a sit-in protest against the closure of access to a school building blocked by Israeli settlers in the area.
Israeli troops fire tear gas at Palestinian kids in West Bank
Israeli forces fired tear gas at Palestinian schoolchildren staging a sit-in on Monday in the occupied West Bank, AFP footage showed, after settlers blocked access to their school. The Israeli military confirmed to AFP it had dispersed an "unusual gathering", but did not specify whether its troops had fired tear gas at the children on the first day of class since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran. The incident took place at Umm al-Khair, a…
Israeli soldiers used tear gas on Monday to disperse Palestinian schoolchildren participating in a sit-in in the occupied West Bank, after settlers barred them from their schools, a journalist from AFPTV observed.
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